OGC Meeting Update

By
Carl Reed III

The 54th
meeting of the OGC Technical and Planning Committees was held in St.
Johns, Newfoundland, June 13th-17th.The meeting, hosted by Compusult
Ltd.with co-sponsorship from many Newfoundland agencies and
organizations, was extremely productive and successful.The key actions
and recommendations resulting from the meeting are listed below.

Release of the candidate specification GML in
JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery (GMLJP2) for a 30 day public comment
period.

Release of the GML Simple Features Profile
Specification for a 30 public comment period followed by an electronic
vote for approval as an adopted OpenGIS Specification.

Approval to release two new OGC White Papers:
"Interoperability and Open Architectures: An analysis of existing
standardisation processes and procedures" and the "SIDP Notional
Architecture Executive Summary."

Approval to release a new version of the Catalog
Services - Web ebRIM Profile.ebRIM is an OASIS standard for an ebXML
Registry Information Model [ebRIM].It provides information on the
types of metadata that are stored in the Registry as well as the
relationships among the various metadata classes.

Approval to release a new OGC Discussion paper
titled "GeoXACML, a Spatial Extension of XACML." XACML
(Extensible Access Control Markup Language) is an OASIS standard.

Approval to have an electronic vote for the
adoption of ISO 19136, after minor edits, as GML 3.2.

Approval to release the GML Point Profile as an
OGC Discussion paper.

Approval to release the Web Processing Service
(WPS) candidate implementation specification as an OGC Discussion Paper.

Endorsement of a joint ISO/OGC editing team to
move Web Feature Service and Filter Encoding as ISO COmmitee Drafts.